Wednesday, 31 January 2018

PRACE Summer of HPC 2018

Applications are open to participate in the PRACE Summer of HPC Programme 2018. PRACE Summer of HPC is a PRACE outreach and training programme that offers summer placements at top HPC centres across Europe to late-stage undergraduates and early-stage postgraduate students. Up to twenty top applicants from across Europe will be selected to participate. The programme will run from 2 July to 31 August 2018.

20 000 000 core-hours on a PRACE cluster allocated to two CÉCI users

Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Register for the Ninth CÉCI Scientific Meeting!

The ninth CÉCI scientific meeting day is organised in Louvain-la-Neuve on April
21st. More information and registration: see here.

Friday, 03 March 2017

The CÉCI common filesystem is ready

The CÉCI common filesystem is fully available on the 6 CÉCI clusters.
For example, the partition /CECI/home/ is directly accessible from all the login and compute nodes on all the clusters. Make sure to try it out! More information here.

Wednesday, 14 September 2016

HPC event 2016: Registration is open

The October 10th 2016 HPC event organized by CENAERO, is open for registration.
The presence of the Vice-President of the Government of Wallonia, Jean-Claude Marcourt, is confirmed. Take a look at the event program(in french). Attendance is free of charge, but registration is required

Tuesday, 02 August 2016

We tested for you: Belnet Filesender

Belnet offers a file transfer service that you can use to send large files over the internet to colleagues or collaborators. To use it, simply go to https://filesender.belnet.be/, choose your university, and enter your university identifier and password (the one that you typically use to access your emails or your university's intranet.) Then you simply have to choose the file, enter the recipient's email address, and your correspondent will recieve a link to your file that she can download. More information here.

Wednesday, 06 July 2016

HPC event. Save the date !

A HPC event is being prepared for October 10th 2016. The event is organized by
CENAERO, the operator of Tier-1 supercomputer in
Wallonia. The presence of the Vice-President of the Government of Wallonia,
Jean-Claude Marcourt, is announced. More details on the content and the
schedule will be communicated further. See more information (in French)

Tuesday, 14 June 2016

Visit of the Minister of Budget

The new data center dedicated to scientifc computing built in Louvain-la-Neuve has welcomed a visit of the European Investment Bank on June 14th. The group was led by the Minister of Budget of the Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles André Flahaut. He was accompanied by a representative of the F.R.S.-FNRS and a representative of the Minister of Higher Education.
See more information here.

Tuesday, 24 May 2016

CÉCI sysadmins at Belnet event

Belnet is announcing their next Networking Conference to be held on Oct 25th in Brussels on their Twitter account using a picture from last year featuring CÉCI system administrators in the front row. See the tweet here.

Friday, 22 April 2016

Eighth CÉCI Scientific Meeting

The eighth CÉCI scientific meeting day was organised in Liège on April
22nd. Nine talks were scheduled to present HPC-related aspects
of scientific research. See the program
here.

Sunday, 29 November 2015

Upcoming conference "e-Infrastructures in Belgium"

The CÉCI co-organizes, in collaboration with Belspo, EWI, SPW, Belnet, and VSC, a conference dedicated to e-infrastructure (network, computing, storage) for scientific research on Monday 14th in Brussels. Registration is free but mandatory. More details here.

Thursday, 15 January 2015

NIC4 upgraded at ULg

NIC4, the CÉCI cluster hosted at ULg, has been upgraded with 8 additional nodes, all with the same features as the previously existing ones. Slurm has furthermore been updated to version 14.03, now featuring among others job arrays.

Friday, 12 December 2014

Zenobe, the Walloon Tier-1 supercomputer is now available to all the CÉCI users

Monday, 03 March 2014

22,260,000 core-hours on PRACE Tier-0 clusters allocated to CÉCI users. Be the next one!

Jean-Christophe Charlier and Nicolas Leconte (UCL), and Samir Sid and Vincent Terrapon (ULg) have been allocated time on Tier-0 clusters, respectively in the context of the 8th Regular Call and for a preparatory access. Congratulation to them.

Thursday, 27 February 2014

NIC4 installed at ULg

The sixth CECI cluster, NIC4 has entered production. It is installed at ULg.
NIC4 features 120 compute nodes with two 8-cores Intel E5-2650 processors at 2.0 GHz and 64 GB of RAM (4 GB/core), interconnected with a QDR Infiniband network (2:1 blocking factor), and having exclusive access to a fast 144 TB FHGFS parallel filesystem.
From today, you can access it with your CÉCI
credentials.

Thursday, 03 October 2013

200.000 core-hours on PRACE Tier-0 clusters allocated to a CÉCI user

Yvan Notay and his team from ULB have been granted 100.000 core-hours on Juqueen, and 50.000 more on Hermit and Curie each, to test the scalability of their code AGMG, resulting from an application to a PRACE Preparatory Access call Type A. Congratulation to them!

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Training sessions to start mid-October

The CISM and the CÉCI jointly offer, this year again, a complete
training for super-computer users from a basic introduction to Linux
to complex parallel computations with MPI. Registration is free but
mandatory. More info on the training page.

Wednesday, 11 September 2013

VEGA installed at ULB

The HPC cluster 'Vega' is now installed at the Université libre de Bruxelles.
Vega is primarily dedicated to many-cores jobs (each node has 64 cores) and to batches of many single-core jobs.
It comprises 44 nodes, each with four AMD Opteron 6272, 256 GB of RAM and 250GB of local harddisk (yes, more RAM than disk space). Vega also has a fast 70TB GPFS global scratch space.

Wednesday, 04 September 2013

8th PRACE Regular Call for Proposals open

The 8th PRACE Regular Call for Proposals will be open from September 3rd, 2013 until October 15th, 2013,
noon, 12:00 Brussels Time.

Sunday, 07 July 2013

HERCULES installed at UNamur

The HPC cluster 'Hercules' is available for use. Hercules is located at the University of Namur and operated by the 'Plateforme Technologique de Calcul Intensif' (PTCI).
Hercules is primarily designed for users who need to run shared memory parallel jobs (OpenMP or Pthreads) or multiple resource-intensive sequential jobs.
It comprises 32 Intel Sandy Bridge nodes, each with two 8-core processors and 64 or 128 GB of RAM. One partition is available with no time limit.

Fifth CÉCI Scientific Meeting program announced.

Saturday, 23 March 2013

DRAGON1 installed at UMons

After Hmem and Lemaitre2, Dragon1 is the third CÉCI cluster to
be set to production. It is installed at UMons. With fast Sandy Bridge
E5-2670@2.6GHz and large maximum running times, it is the perfect match for
single-core long jobs. From today, you can access it with your CÉCI
credentials.

Tuesday, 01 May 2012

Article about CÉCI and CISM in 'La Quinzaine'

Friday, 10 February 2012

Second Datanews article about CÉCI this year

The latest issue of Datanews offers a one-page article about the CÉCI. Based on an interview with Thomas Keutgen, manager at the supercomputing centre of UCL, the article details the CÉCI initiative, organization and roadmap. The article highlights the fact that, by 2013, the CÉCI clusters should represent a total of 6000 to 7000 compute cores.

Friday, 27 January 2012

Datanews article about CÉCI

Datanews publishes an article about Lemaitre2, the new CÉCI cluster installed at UCL. The article, titled "L'UCL installe 14 Tflops", describes the new cluster and compares its features to the olders clusters from UCL. The article also brievely presents the CÉCI and its organisation.